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E. M. SIEGEL AND I. OCQNNELL.

CLOTHING RAck, APPLICATION HLED APR.25,19I9.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

ro/wrx ELMER M. SIEGEL AND IRVIN OCONNELL, OF (HEARD, OHIO.

CLOTHING-RACK.

Lee-seas.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

Application filed. April 25.. 1919. Serial nmaaes.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELMER M. SIEGEL and IRVIN OCONNELL, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Girard, county of Trumbull, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements in Clothing-Racks, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates broadly to clothes racks, and more specifically to a rack-like support for articles ofwearing apparel.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive rack by means of which numerous articles of clothing, such as womens coats and skirts, carried by, or mounted upon, any of the common forms of coat or skirt hangers, may be advantageously supported to occupy but small space and without becoming disordered or wrinkled through pressure of one article against another.

A further object is to provide a device of the character mentioned adapted for use either in stores or in domestic wardrobes, having a hanger-carrying member which is foldable from an extended horizontal position in which any selected article among those supported thereby may be removed without disturbin the others, to an approximately upright position wherein the articles are disposed in orderly overlapplng relation occupying relatively small space.

With these and other important objects in view, the invention resides in the features of construction, arrangement of parts and combinations of elements which will hereinafter be fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,-in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same; and- Fig. 3 is afront elevation of the upper portion of the same.

Referring to said drawings, in which like designating characters distinguish like partsthroughout the several views- 1 indicates a rod or bar, preferably rectangular in cross section, which is designed for mounting in a vertical position, as against a wall, the inner face of a wardrobe door, or other convenient place, a metal hanger 2 provided with a nail-receiving eye \3 being attached to the back thereof at or adjacent to the upper end.

Mounted upon opposite sides of the'lower end of the bar 1 are plates 4. having integral parallel lugs 5 extending in a downwardly and forwardly inclined direction from their lower ends. Said plates 4 may be' separate, or they may constitute integral side portions of a saddle-shaped member, as shown. Disposed between and pivotally mounted upon said lugs 5 is the lower end portion of a The lower end of the movable bar 6 ex tends beyond its point of pivotal connection with the lugs 5, so that when said bar is swung to horizontal position its projecting end seats for support in underlying relation to the lower end of the bar 1.

A resilient metal catch 7 has one end rigidly mounted upon the upper end of the bar 1 and is shaped at its front end to interengage or interlock with the upper end of the movable bar 6 for supporting the latter in its elevated or folded position. Fixed in spaced relation on the front face of the bar 6 is a pluralityof hooks 8, each adapted to receive thereon the usual hook or suspension loop of a coat or skirt hanger of any of the various forms commonly used. Said supporting hooks 8 are of such form or are so disposed that chance disengagement ofhangers therefrom is prevented in both of the positions to which the bar 6 is movable.

The catch 7 is preferably made of such length that the bar 6 is normally supported thereby in approximately the position shown in Fig. 1that is, in a position inclined forward considerably from vertical. In such position articles of clothin carried by the hangers mounted upon the hooks 8, as aforesaid, are obviously allowed-to hang vertically, each overlapping the article next therebelow in such manner that such articles are subjected to little, if any, disordering pressure one from the others.

A flat plate 9, herein shown as triangular in form, is attached to the back of the stationary bar 1 adjacent to the lower end of the latter, said plate providing opposite laterally extending wings which rest against the wall or other surface upon which said bar is supported and serve to prevent the rack from rocking laterally.

What is, claimed is- As an article of manufacture, a clothing rack comprising a bar for detachably mounting in a suspended vertical stationary position against a wall or the like, parallel lugs carried b and extending in a downwardly and orwardly lnclined direction from the lower end of said bar, a second bar having its lower end portion disposed between and pivotally mounted upon said lugs, said pivoted bar being foldable from an approximately upright position to a.ho r1- zontal position, the lower end of sald p1voted bar being projected beyond the pivotal connection so as to seat in underlying relation to the lower end of said stationary bar when the horizontal position of the pivoted bar is assumed, hooks carried by the front face of the pivoted bar, means carried by the upper end of one of said bars -and interengageable with the corresponding end of the other whereby said pivoted bar may be supported in an upraised position inclined forward somewhat from vertical, and means carried by said stationary bar adjacent to its lower end whereby lateral rocking movement of the latter is prevented.

In testimony whereof we ailix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ELMER M. SIEGEL. IRVIN OCONNELL.

Witnessesz.

ALFRED A. SHLIoKnnMAN, D. M. KENT. 

